Romancing the Price

Excellent work KennyZ!

on FOMC Wednesday i had quite a good day.. NFP and FOMC are my favorite trading days.. they are kind of scalpers paradise..

before going to sleep, i took few oz longs near to parity.. went sleep without entering any stops.. i was confident it should do bit of retracement from here or some ranging then retracement.. i guess tiredness also affected my objective thinking..

when i got up and saw oz chart, i wasn't impressed with my longs to say the least.. after quickly checking longer time frames i decided to take just over 1300 pips loss.. wasn't a good start to the day for me..

i sat back, drink my coffee and consumed some nicotine then decided to close all my locked trades as prices had shifted drastically.. they were no longer viable to work with in respect of expanding those locks.. closing all locked trades gave me 3821 pips.. now, i felt much better.. this is one example how locked trades can help trading psychology as i mentioned in previous posts..

now, i was ready for the battle without any psychological bag to dent my trading..




took many more trades.. few notable ones are below:









of course, i had loosing trades too in the process.. those loosing trades kept to as small as i could manage and covered by my small scalps amply.. i don't post small scalps (10 - 15 pips here and there) unless, there is something worth noting.

i couldn't resist early start to week when i saw gaps up on a downtrend..

closed all for 74 pips in total




Edit:
since gu hit the supply i sold it again for quickie.. and crude gap, i bought.. crude pa is different on different times.. both closed for 39 pips.. and just closed crude long from friday too with 110 pips.. will add screen cap



closed crude trade.. [now i see that i closed it bit early but that's fine by me]

this trade i love.. closed upper two longs for 91 silver pips and lock from friday expanded..

i couldn't utilize full ride on eu.. but still it's ok by me..

i gave bit more time to my second set of gold trades.. i tempted to close them before but somehow managed to hold them bit longer at this time..

unfortunately some great trading opportunities occurred while i was sleeping..

one late entry and one from earlier..




slv, gold and crude opportunities are missed..

here are some examples of early exits from recent trades.. premature evacuation [PE]

managed to expand gold lock further with some extra pips..



similar situation with silver and started new lock with crude.. will post bit later...


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edit: here is the slv lock expansion mentioned earlier.. i left quite a bit on the table but i'm still happy with this outcome..



edit 2: slv lock expanded bit more..

this is usually how my locking starts..




and as usual i still carry on trading..




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edit: crude lock expanded

a simple scalp trade.. i'm posting it as an exercise with some explanation, otherwise it's not worth posting..

i don't need to draw all those zone boxes on my trading charts as i can see them.. exceptions are when zones are out of my charts viewable segment..



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edit: another example of quite hours trading.. i'm sure it's quite clear where and why entered..

earlier i noticed something was happening with usdjpy.. so i bought few.. took sometime to develop.. left bottom one open and moved stop @be+

update on slv front..





due to friends visit, i wasn't able to concentrate on trading fully today..

still happy with my silver trades today, considering 1 slv pips equals to 5 eu pips..

on gold front, just a little lock expansion.. nothing much so far..

as i missed the up move, crude was running away from my lock..

i had to put on some extra balls to take these trades on to expand my freshly started [yesterday i think] crude lock..

couple more trades worth mentioning from today..

More than excellent work... Ken is the mutts nuts!

few trades from today so far..

some examples of quickies from Asian session.. i do this type of scalps all day along..






and couple from earlier [Wednesday]

few trades from today so far..

star one was silver longs.. however silver short taken afterwards closed way too early.. well, i was mesmerized by 371 slv pips [equals to about 1850+ eu pips].. so i was happy to add 22 pips top of it.









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Edit: Latest closed silver and gold trades..





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Edit 2: freshly baked.. just out of oven.. Dax gave a perfect finish.. minutes before closing time..

couple of crude trades..